"Dedicated to the subject of literary rhetoric, this book is divided in three principal parts: (1) an historical outline of the relationship of rhetoric and literature; (2) an overview of the realm of rhetoric and its parts and functions, above all in the section of "elocutio" with its classes of figures, where a critical comparison of traditional and modern models of the rhetorical figures is followed by the design of a new one; and (3) the implementation of this new concept in seven classes of figures and their respective subdivisions - phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, graphemic, textological, and intertextual figures. Each chapter is supplemented by analyses of literary texts conceived as a demonstration of the applicability of the theoretical concepts and structures presented before. An extensive bibliography of research literature and detailed indices of names and subjects conclude this treatise."--Jacket.